Penny Dreadful, TV GH!?

[ecwcaptain]

Ok, is it me, or every time that Billie Piper's character opens her mouth you just cringe at the awful, and I mean AWFUL attempt at an Irish accent? Why make her speak with an accent, or if she is that awful why not just get a real Irish actress? (ok, she has more of a namesake, but still).

Ok, rant over. 

[Kommando_J]

To be fair it's not that bad, i'm Irish and I have heard other Irish people that sound like that, our accents often can sound like that, they run the gamut (when i've had a drink in me mine can sound pretty stereotypical/incomprehensible, a cliché I know), in Pipers case she's over egging it.

I like the show but I can't stand Dorian Grey or Eva Green for that matter.

[kidterminal]

No I have trouble listening and I like Billie. I like the Egyptian vampire tie in but the show is creeping along like a snail on the edge of a razor, painfully slow.

[Mr. Peabody]

All in all, I enjoyed the first season. It wasn't absolutely brilliant, but it had its moments and its twists.

I think it succeeded in paying homage to the penny dreadful genre and has perhaps contributed some nice fodder for GH gaming.

[goon3423]

Hoping for a strong second season. The first ended well enough I suppose but there were a lot of unanswered questions, hopefully that means they're writing for the long game.

[pinny]

I was pleasantly surprised with the ending, didn't see it coming at all

[white knight]

Still need to watch the last two episodes. The thing that tempered our enthusiasm a bit was the fact that it seems to be all about setting moods and creating atmosphere while the story hardly moves at all. Of course, one might say this is faithful to the original victorian horror stories too.

[Col. Aubrey Bagshot]

With SO many things left un-resolved, and as someone else pointed out, how slow the narrative is, you do wonder quite how many series the writer has planned! Could be 4 seasons + at this rate...

[Ssendam]

With SO many things left un-resolved, and as someone else pointed out, how slow the narrative is, you do wonder quite how many series the writer has planned! Could be 4 seasons + at this rate...

The whole series has felt like an introductory feature length episode, in that we have really only just got to know the characters. I have enjoyed it though.

[Sardoo]

Really enjoyed the show despite its sometimes glacial pace.

Without giving the ending away, in case someone has yet to see it, the last one minute made me think, "And now we have everybody aboard!"

Looking forward to next season.

[Mr. Peabody]

I quite enjoy a nice big book if the story is well told and the setting is enjoyable.

So a TV show with slow pacing really is no problem as long as the production company actually has a story-arc and whoever controls the purse-strings gives the thing a fair chance to see the story told.

If it's well done, I don't mind waiting around until next year to see more of the story.

[The-closet-gamer]

I know I'm a bit late with this especially now the first seasons ended. But I really really need to build the tavern where Billy Pipper and the werewolf shacked up. I don't know why but the outside shot of the tavern even though it's CGI just screams build me.
 
Thought the bit we're the monster shacks up with Frankenstein was a little bit funny even though they want to kill each other.

P.S. The only bit that grabbed my attention from the online reviews was Psychosexual, can't remember what else it said or is it just me.

[kidterminal]

P.S. The only bit that grabbed my attention from the online reviews was Psychosexual, can't remember what else it said or is it just me.

You mean the new ad man term for there's a lot of shacking up?